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Technology policy, regulation, government action, digital rights, platform rules, AI governance, cybersecurity policy, privacy law, and public-sector decisions affecting technology and the internet.
Australia’s Social Media Ban Is Becoming a Proof Test for Big Tech
Australia wants to double penalties for under-16 social media age-ban breaches to A$99 million and give its eSafety Commissioner stronger powers to demand evidence from platforms, app stores, and age-assurance vendors. The fight is shifting from account removals to proof that age checks actually work.
NHTSA Brake-Pedal Proposal Gives Robotaxis a Hardware Path
NHTSA wants to update federal braking rules so vehicles built only for automated driving systems no longer need manual brake pedals. The proposal could help purpose-built robotaxis from companies such as Zoox and Tesla, but it does not remove stopping-distance requirements or settle the harder question of how driverless systems should prove safe behavior on real roads.
Open-Weight AI Cyber Gap Narrows to Months, AISI Finds
The UK AI Security Institute says GLM-5.2 and DeepSeek V4-Pro now trail leading closed AI models on cyber tasks by roughly four to seven months. For defenders, that shrinking gap turns open-weight model policy into an operational security issue, not a distant AI governance debate.
AI Is Becoming a 2026 Midterm Issue in Money, Ads, and Data Centers
AI is moving from campaign talking point to campaign infrastructure in the 2026 midterms. Super PAC spending, data-center backlash, and AI-generated political ads are turning model policy into a practical election issue.
Meta’s Virtue AI Hires Move Agent Security Into the Model Lab
Meta Superintelligence Labs is hiring Virtue AI co-founders Bo Li, Dawn Song, Sanmi Koyejo and other team members. The move brings automated red teaming, runtime guardrails, and agent-action security closer to Meta’s frontier AI work as labs race to make agents safer before they reach billions of users.
Instagram Is Making Its Algorithm Controls Harder to Ignore
Instagram is testing new ways to surface its Your Algorithm controls directly inside Feed and Reels. The change gives users more topic-level control over recommendations, but it still does not solve the biggest complaint from creators and users: seeing more posts from accounts they already follow.
Mythos Limits Are Already Pushing AI Cyber Tools Toward Alternatives
Anthropic’s Mythos 5 is returning only for approved U.S. cyber defenders while Fable 5 remains restricted. In the same week, Sakana AI and 360 Security showed why AI cyber capability is becoming a provider-risk and sovereignty problem, not just a model benchmark race.
Pax Silica Summit Turns AI Policy Into a Supply Chain Race
The second Pax Silica Summit brought 35 countries behind an AI Opportunity statement and expanded the U.S.-led supply-chain initiative to 24 signatories. The move shows AI policy shifting from abstract model rules toward chips, energy, critical minerals, data centers, logistics, and manufacturing capacity.
FCC Turns Emergency Alert Cybersecurity Into a Baseline Requirement
The FCC adopted targeted cybersecurity rules for Emergency Alert System participants after years of warnings about default passwords, unpatched gear, and internet-exposed alerting equipment. Broadcasters and cable operators will have 60 days after Federal Register publication to meet the new baseline.
RAISE US Launches $500M AI Workforce Push With OpenAI and Anthropic Backing
RAISE US, a bipartisan nonprofit led by Gina Raimondo and Eric Holcomb, launched with more than $500 million to test AI workforce programs with states, employers, and major tech backers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Amazon.